Scar · Missy Higgins

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 14 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
SCAR · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 16, 24 and 14 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 10 sections: 44 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-38.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART P
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEAPUS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Scar?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Scar hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Scar?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 16, 24 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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